An overview of Quaternary bird remains from the southern part of the North Sea

Bird skeletal remains fished directly from the North Sea are scarce, most likely due to their generally small size, but they are more common in material collected from nourished beaches. Quaternary (estimated as predominantly Late Pleistocene to Early Holocene) remains of at least 48 bird species are currently known from the North Sea; this includes humeri of Cepphus grylle (Linnaeus, 1758) and Calidris alba (Pallas, 1764)/C. alpina (Linnaeus, 1758)/C. temminckii (Leisler, 1812) which are reported here for the first time; additionally a new record of Pinguinus impennis (Linnaeus, 1758) demonstrates Westenschouwen as the sixteenth Dutch beach site for this species.